Grosvenor Prints

[The first hydrogen balloon] Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du ballon aréostatique de Mr. de Mongolfier.
Se vend à Augsbourg dans le Negoce com¯un de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libér aux avec privilège de sa Majesté Imperiale et avec Defense de n'en fairem'd' vendre de copies [n.d., c.1783].
Coloured etching. 280 x 405mm (11½ x 16"), very large margins. A few foxing spots.
Jacques Charles and brothers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis Robert designed and built the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon, using rubberised silk. It was launched (unmanned) on 27th August 1783 from the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, watched by Benjamin Frankin. It landed 21 kilometres away in the village of Gonesse where the reportedly terrified local peasants attacked it with pitchforks, as depicted here. This print is a vüe-d'optique, designed to be viewed through an optical viewer so the title, which incorrectly draws on Montgolfier's name, is reversed above the image.
[Ref: 56954] £690.00

[The first hydrogen balloon] Expérience de la Machine Aréostatique de M.rs de Montgolfier d'Anonai eb Vivaris, Reppetée à Paris le 27 Aoust 1783 au Champ de Mars, avec un Bolon de Taffetas enduit de Gomme élastique, de 30 pieds 6 ponces de circonference Ce Balon plein d'Air Inflamable a été éxécuté par Mrs. Robert en vertu d'une Souscription Nationale sous le direction de Mr Faujas de Saint Fond.
[Paris, c.1785]
Engraving with original hand colour. 295 x 410mm (11½ x 16"). Spotting and creasing.
Jacques Charles and brothers Anne-Jean and Nicolas-Louis Robert designed and built the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon, using rubberised silk. It was launched (unmanned) on 27th August 1783 from the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, as depicted here, watched by Benjamin Frankin. It landed 21 kilometres away in the village of Gonesse where the reportedly terrified local peasants attacked it with pitchforks. The use of Montgolfier's name is incorrect. This print is a vüe-d'optique, designed to be viewed through an optical viewer so the title is reversed above the image.
[Ref: 56955] £690.00

Second Voyage Aérien. Expériénce faite dans le Jardin Thueilleries par M.M. Charles et Robert, le 1.er x.bre 1783. Le Globe en Taffettas gommé de 26 Pieds de diamètre était plein d'Air inflammable.
Dessiné par le Ch.r de Lorimier. Gravé par N. De Launay.
[n.d., c.1785.]
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 120mm (8 x 4¾"). Trimmed within plate, repair on right edge, paper toned.
A view of a balloon carrying professor Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert away from the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, on the 1st December 1783. Coming less than a fortnight after Montolfier's first balloon flight, this was the first using hydrogen rather than hot air. Among the 400,000 spectators reported were Montgolfier and Benjamin Franklin.
[Ref: 57654] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Beilage zum N.J Blatt der Erlanger Real. Zeitung 1784.
Rare engraving, plate 175 x 100mm (7 x 4"). A few age spots mostly in margins. Centre horizontal crease.
Supplement to the German newspaper 'Erlanger Real' published in 1784. Three men on the ground man the instrument providing the hot air to push the balloon upwards. Two men stand in the basket: one waving a flag the other having dropped his. The date, number of passengers and the balloon being unteathered suggests that this depicts the November 21st, 1783 Parisian flight of Pilatre de Rozier and French military official, the Marquis d’Arlandes in a balloon set up by the Montgolfier brothers. The pair flew from the center of Paris to the suburbs, about 5.5 miles (9 km), in 25 minutes. Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight and wrote about it in his journal.
[Ref: 56928] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Engraved for the European Magazine. The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon.
Jn.o Lodge sc.
Published Nov.r 1.st 1783, by I. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.
Engraving, plate 190 x 125mm (7½" x 5"). No11 and some pencil text is written in the top margin. Creases in margins. Stain on right that creeps into the plate mark.
A satire on the Montgolfier brothers Le Réveillon balloon experiment were they put a a sheep, duck and cockerel in the basket to see if hot air ballooning is safe for mankind. The demonstration was held in front of Louis XVI and the royal family in the palace forecourt. The balloon left the ground and soared 600 metres into the air. Damaged by a rip in the fabric, it descended slowly eight minutes later after travelling 3.5 km and came back to land in the Wood of Vaucresson, at the Maréchal crossroads.
See Ref: 57270. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58170] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Engraved for the European Magazine. The Descent of the Air Balloon.
Jn.o Lodge sc.
Publish'd Dec.r 1.st 1783, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row.
Engraving, plate 190 x 125mm (7½" x 5"). No11 and some pencil text is written at the top entering the plate mark. Nicks to edge of the paper.
A satire on the Montgolfier brothers Le Réveillon balloon experiment were they put a a sheep, duck and cockerel in the basket to see if hot air ballooning is safe for mankind. The demonstration was held in front of Louis XVI and the royal family in the palace forecourt. The balloon left the ground and soared 600 metres into the air. Damaged by a rip in the fabric, it descended slowly eight minutes later after travelling 3.5 km and came back to land in the Wood of Vaucresson, at the Maréchal crossroads.
See Ref: 57270. From the Collection of Christopher Hatton Turnor 1840-1914 Author of "Astra Castra"
[Ref: 58171] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Le Nouveau Pâris. Ou la Pomme de discorde entre les Jeunes Filles de la Rue St. Martin et celles de la Rue St. Denis.
31 Juillet 1808.
Very rare cloured etching in frame: dimensions of frame 280 x 335mm (11 x 13¼"). Unexamined out of frame.
A contemporary take on the story of the Golden Apple of Discord which Eris said she would give to the fairest at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, sparking a dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Paris, a Phrygian mortal, was called upon to judge the contest, and in this print Paris is an aeronaut who descends to arbitrate between the young women of the Rue St. Martin and the Rue St. Denis.
[Ref: 11229] £330.00

Balmoral Castle. (Dee Side) Published By Royal Permission. W. Smith, Architect.
Drawn by E. Duncan. Engraved by T.A. Prior.
London J. & W. Robins 57, Tooley Street, London [n.d., c.1857].
Steel engraving, sheet 230 x 440mm. 9 x 17¼". Trimmed within plate. Vertical centre crease.
View of Balmoral Castle, a large estate house situated in the area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known as Royal Deeside. The estate was purchased by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, and remains a favourite summer royal residence. Albert paid just over £30,000 for full ownership in 1852 and immediately started making plans with William Smith to extend the existing 15th century castle, and make a new and bigger castle fit for the royal family. The new building Prince Albert ordered to be built within a hundred yards of the old castle was planned and designed partly by himself and completed in 1856. Engraved for the Stationers' Almanack. The Stationers' Company had published the Stationers' Almanack since 1747, a single-sheet which consisted of calendar text set out beneath an engraved headpiece that recorded significant events of the preceeding year.
[Ref: 9981] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Balms in the County of Middlesex.
[Pieter Van der Aa after Johannes Kip, 1707]
Rare engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Very large margins; unfolded state; Collector's stamp of Robert Johannes Meyer verso.
Plate from James Beverell's Les Delices de la Grande Bretagne et de L'Irlande. Formerly in the collection of Robert Johannes Meyer (1882-1976), Hamburg lawyer and print collector.
L.4536
[Ref: 38538] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Map of Beloochistan & Sinde, with Parts of Kutch, Seistan, Khorasan, Persia, &c. by Henry Pottinger, Lieut.t 7th Bombay Native Infantry, A.D. 1814.
Reduced from the Original Document and Engraved by Thomson & Hall, Bury Street, Bloomsbury.
London, Published Feb.y 27th 1816, by Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme & Brown, Paternoster Row.
Engraving with stipple, with original hand colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 665 x 930mm (26¼ x 36½"). Some offset, folded; cracks in folds.
A rare map of Balochistan, covering parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and southern Persia, marking the routes of Henry Pottinger and Captain Charles Christie as they mapped the region for the East India Company, amid concerns that Napoleonic France could invade India. Disguised as Muslims, they travelled together to Nushki before separating and taking different routes to Isfahan in Iran. Later Pottinger was appointent envoy and plenipotentiary in China, as which he negotiated the Treaty of Nanking (1842), ending the First Opium War and ceding Hong Kong to Britain. The following year he became the first Governor of Hong Kong, then Governor of the Cape Colony (1847) and Governor of Madras (1848-54).
[Ref: 57970] £650.00

[Honoré de Balzac.]
P. Hayrick sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist.
[Ref: 52554] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Balzac. Cire de l'Institut Royal de France.
Maurin. Lith de Delpech, a Paris.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Lithograph. 457 x 312mm. 18 x 12¼".
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594-1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 14356] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Monsieur de Balzac:
R. Gaywood fecit. [n.d., c.1660]
Engraving, sheet 140 x 100mm (5½ x 4"). Rare; letterpress pasted below.
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594-1654), man of letters and critic, one of the original members of the Académie Française; he had a great influence on the development of Classical French prose.
[Ref: 37680] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Bamborough Castle, Northumberland.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by W. Daniell, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, July 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of Bamburgh Castle from the coast. During the Wars of the Roses, it became the first castle in England to be defeated by artillery, 1464. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 35963] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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[Bamburgh Castle.]
Marion Rhodes [pencil signature outside image.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 298 x 468mm (11¾ x 18½").
Marion Rhodes, English artist. (1907 - 1998). Rhodes studied at Huddersfield School of Art, Leeds School of Art (1925-1929) and the Central School of Art and Design, London (1934-39). She taught art before moving to London. Rhodes went on to teach in the city and in the south of England for most of her life though she exhibited her etchings and drawings at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Paris Salon.
[Ref: 14883] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Bamburgh Castle.
Original Etching by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A. Edition linited to 175 impressions. Plate to be destroyed.
[London: Alfred Bell & Co., n.d., c.1935.]
Drypoint, signed in pencil by the artist. 140 x 230mm (5½ x 9"), very large margins, publisher's blind stamps. In original mount with printed label with title as above, with publisher's 'Minerva's Head' & 'A B C' logo. Mint.
By Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), an artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings and as a creator of art deco travel and British railway posters. From 1900 onwards he exhibited at the RA, and was awarded R.I. in 1929.
[Ref: 49158] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[George Warwick Bampfylde?] A View near Bamfylde.
W H fecit. [Heath.]
Pub May 7 1823 by G Humphrey 24 St James's St & 74 New Bond St.
Good hand coloured etching. Watermarked: Whatman 1823. Sheet 250 x 200mm. 9¾ x 8". Trimmed within plate, to border.
Caricature gentleman walking with a stick in profile to the right; possibly a portrait of George Warwick Bampfylde, 1st Baron Poltimore (1786 - 1858). He succeeded to the baronetcy in April 1823 after his father was killed by a former servant. Print made by William Heath (1794/5 - 1840).
BM Satires: undescribed.
[Ref: 15567] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Les Mystères des Bois. Sous le Bananier. Under the Bananier. Unter des Bananier.
Composé et lith. par Joseph Félon. Imprimé par Lemercièr, á Paris.
London, E. Gambart & Co. 25 Berners S.t Oxford S.t. [n.d., c.1850.]
Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet: 325 x 420mm (12¾ x 16½"). Marking on left.
An exotic Middle Eastern scene in which two scantily clad women lie beneath a banana tree.
[Ref: 47761] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

Charle Banks Gentilhomme Suedois Peintre a L'Encre de L'Achine en Mignature. 1748. Le Chevalier Du Halley Descazeaux dédit, struxit, et inscripsit, 1748.
C. Bancks pinx.t. J. Mac'Ardell Fecit.
Rare mezzotint, with engraved armorial and text. Sheet 210 x 125mm (8¼ x 5"), with large margins.
A self-portrait in oval of Charles Bancks (fl. 1738), a Swedish miniaturist working in England. The dedication is to a Frenchman, born 1710, who joined the Prussian army but had to flee after a duel, settling in London. He was confined in Fleet Prison because of debt, where he wrote a lot of poetry (very little published).
CS 10. Goodwin 5.
[Ref: 68362] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Band Boxes. Tabarts Juveline Library.
[London: Richard Phillips, 1805.]
Coloured engraving with very large margins. 140 x 105mm (5½ x 4¼"), with text sheet. Repaired tear in wide margin.
A man selling decorative boxes, published in 'Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis'. Behind him is the Bibliotheque d'Education or Tabart's Juveline Library, which was on New Bond Street, on the corner of Grafton Street.
[Ref: 33999] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Gamron, cen groot vlek in het Lantschap Kirman, niet verre van Ormus, gelegen aen den Perziaenschen zeeboezem. Gamron, sinus Persici vicus olim exigius nunc vero maxime opulentus.
Pet: Schenk.
Amst. C.P. [n.d. c.1702.]
Engraving. Plate 209 x 267mm. 8¼ x 10½". Tear outside platemark on left.
View of Bandar Abbas in Iran, formerly known in the west as Gamron, Persia.
[Ref: 20607] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Banderole with allegorical figures.]
[By Laurent Guyot?]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Aquatint with etching, printed in sepia. 135 x 435mm (5¼ x 17"), very large margins.
An ornamental banderole with six allegorical figures, including Mercury and two figures representing the Arts.
[Ref: 45180] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

James Bandinel [facsimile signature] Drawn from an early sketch & from memory by J.C. Horsley May 1850
[painted by] C.J. Horsley [print made by] R.J. Lane
M & N Hanhart imp.t
Lithograph, printed area 360 x 250mm (14 x 10"). Printed on india paper; discoloration in margins.
James Bandinel (1783-1849), civil servant. Between 1824 and 1845 he was superintendent of the slave trade department, and as such bore considerable responsibility for its abolition. Lithograph by Richard James Lane (1800-72), a specialist in portraiture who by 1850 was charging as much as £100 for portrait lithography. From an original sketch by John Callcott Horsley RA (1817-1903).
[Ref: 20321] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Captain of Banditti and his Family. Etch'd by Sam.l Ireland form an Original Drawing by Mortimer. To Sir George Beaumont Bar.t and admirer of Mortimer & encourager of the fine Arts this etching is inscribed by his obliged and obedient Servant S: Ireland.
Mortimer del.t Sam.l Ireland fecit.
London, 1785.
Etching. 420 x 465mm (16½ x 18¼"). Very small tears along the lower platemark, some have been repaired. Some creasing in the corners. Very small hole in top right corner margin. Small margins.
A captain, well dressed, standing before his wife and child near the shore, attended by another bandit. Sir George Beaumont (1753 - 1827) was a prominent patron of the British arts and an amatuer painter himself. He was instrumental in the creation of the National Gallery in London, being the first to make a donation of paintings.
[Ref: 53967] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti.
Drawn by I. Mortimer Etch'd by I. Haynes Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.y 1, 1780 by J. Mortimer Norfolk Street Strand, & J, Boydell Cheapside.
London, 1780.
Etching. 350 x 350mm (130¾ x 13¾"), with very wide margins. Stain across foreground figure.
A round design of three bandits. Possibly part of a pair with print 'Pilgrims' of a similar design and also published by Jane Mortimer and John Boydell.
[Ref: 53963] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti.
Marco Ricci. pinx.t / Goupy direxit/ / Chatelain fecit.
[n.d. c.1740s]
Etching. 310 x 410mm (12¼ x 16¼"). Trimmed to plate. Crease in left side of the title area.
Bandits accosting and robbing a group of travellers by the edge of a lake. This print was part of a set of eight scenes by Chatelain after Ricci under the direction of Goupy.
Ex Collection Hon C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 54008] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Attack of robbers in a cave.]
[P. de Laer Pinxit. C. Visscher Fecit.]
[Amsterdam, Cornelis Visscher, c.1660.]
Engraving with etching. Sheet 320 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"). Trimmed within plate, losing inscriptions(?), damage in corners, old ink mss bottom right corner.
Riders attack a coach in a cavernous tunnel. The BM has a unlettered proof, but the inscriptions are below the cut here. Other impressions listed were published by Frederick de Wit and Gerard Valck.
From the collection of Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774), with the signature of his paternal grandfather Pierre Mariette (1634-1716), a Parisian publisher, on reverse.
[Ref: 57438] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Banditti Made Prisoners. From an Original Drawing of Mr. Mortimer's, in the Possession of Mr. Wright of Derby.
Etcht by Tho.s Hardy.
London, 1805.
Etching. 395 x 495mm (15½ x 19½"), with small margins.
Two bandits held captive, presumably by the aggressive man in the background, while two country folk stand watch. It is likely the inscription refers to Joseph Wright of Derby, which suggests this scene was drawn in 1774 when Mortimer and Wright were working together on illustrations of the Captive from Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey'.
[Ref: 53969] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti Regaling To the R.t Hon.ble Earl Harcourt, this Etching from the Original Drawing by Mortimer in the possession of S. Ireland is inscribed By his Lordships much obliged & obedient Serv.t S. I.
Mortimer Del.t Sam. Ireland fecit.
1785.
Etching. 430 x 465mm (17 x 18¼"). Torn along plate edge upper right corner and lower left corner and edge. One small tear affects the title area. Small margins.
A group of bandits feasting and relaxing in a courtyard. The inscription is likely dedicated to George Harcourt (1736-1809), who was a politician and noted patron of the arts.
[Ref: 53968] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti Returning. From an Original Drawing of J. Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r.
Drawn by J. Mortimer 1775. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r 9.th 1780, by R. Blyth N.o 27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Etching. 395 x 440mm (15½ x 17¼"), with very wide margins. Foxing in upper margin. Small tears, mostly repaired, along lower edge. Small stain bottom left.
A bandit wearing armour and a helmet, holding a female captive, who looks down to left, her clothes in disarray, another bandit to right, one hand on his hip, holding a spear in the other, beside a man wearing a plumed helmet who gazes questioningly at the woman, while other bandits approach the cave from the left, bringing captives in oriental dress.
[Ref: 53966] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Banditti with a female captive.]
Mortimer Pinxit. J.R. Smith Sculpsit.
Published Feb.14th 1780 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Mezzotint. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Thread margins; glued to backing sheet at corners. Good impression of a rare print.
Banditti scene after John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-79), published soon after the artist's death. Influenced by the works of Salvator Rosa (immensely popular during the period), Mortimer incorporated Rosa's disturbing banditti and occult subject matter in the 1770s. This print is usually regarded as a generic banditti scene: a preparatory drawing in the collection of Richard Payne Knight (now in the British Museum) was etched by Robert Blyth and published in November 1780 with the title 'Banditti Returning'. However, a related painting by Mortimer (Newcastle, Hatton Gallery) is titled 'The Sacrifice of Polyxena'. In Euripides' plays, Polyxena was sacrificed at the end of the Trojan War to appease the gods.
Ex: collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; Ex: Collection Christopher Mendez; D'Oench 145. Frankau: Not in.
[Ref: 36371] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

I Banditi Italiani. The Italian Banditti. No. 19. Engraved from an Original Picture of Francisco Simonini, in the Possession of Mr. Panton Betew.
Francisco Simonini Pinx.t. F. Vivares Sculp.t.
Published by Franc.s Vivares April 25th. 1759.
Fine etching. 400 x 500mm (15¾ x 19¾"), with large margins. Small tears to margins.
A group of bandits cross a stream to attack a party of travellers; some beg for mercy, holding out bags of money, while another man rides away. Engraved by Francis Vivares (1709-80) after Francesco Simonini (1686 - c.1755), a pair to 'La divisione delle preda. The Booty Divided'. Boydell republished the plates in 1781.
[Ref: 53370] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Three banditti on horseback menacing a crouching figure.]
[Anon., c.1810.]
Pen lithograph, scarce; sheet 270 x 340mm (10½ x 13½"). Staining and mould to edges.
Dramatic early pen lithograph. The new medium allowed artists to draw directly onto a prepared stone, allowing them to make prints which arguably resembled drawings more than any earlier printmaking technique. Unlike many printmaking techniques, lithography required no special training as artists could work directly onto the plate and leave specialist printers to actually make the prints. For this reason many artists who were not trained printmakers (such as Géricault and Delacroix) often worked in lithography.
[Ref: 36954] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti at Market. From an Original Picture, in the Possession of Jos.h Fortnom Esq.r
Jn.o Mortimer pinx. Jno Hall sculp.t
London Publishd as the Act directs May 1.st 1780, by I. Hall, Berwick Street Soho, and I. Boydell Cheapside.
Mint engraving. 380 x 305mm (15 x 12"), with large margins.
Three banditti and a girl with a basket of eggs; the girl seated at left with her head bent down, on a step outside a building, one of the banditti watching her and leaning on a shield decorated with a cross.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection. Sunderland: 138b.
[Ref: 28410] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

A Capt.n of Banditti sending out a Party.
[I.H. Mortimer.]
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I Mortimer.
Etching. Plate 300 x 197mm. 11¾ x 7¾".
Captain standing at left, leaning on a stone block and pointing to right, where an armoured banditti sits, others in a line at left behind the block, only their heads seen. From a series of "Fifteen etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds".
[Ref: 28027] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti going out. From an Original Drawing of J. Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r [&] Banditti returning. From an Original Drawing of J. Mortimer, in the Collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r
Drawn by J. Mortimer, 1775. Etch'd by R. Blyth.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs, Nov.r 9.th 1780, by R. Blyth No.27, Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
Pair of etchings. 395 x 450mm (15½ x 17¾").
Two bandits wearing helmets and carrying spears, either side of a man wearing a turban who carries a cross-bow, one directing him, pointing to the left towards a caravan ascending a mountain path in the distance, while a fourth man ties his sandal behind them and other men, including one wearing a turban who looks back over his shoulder, start down the path from the cave. [&] A bandit wearing armour and a helmet, holding a female captive, who looks down to left, her clothes in disarray, another bandit to right, one hand on his hip, holding a spear in the other, beside a man wearing a plumed helmet who gazes questioningly at the woman, while other bandits approach the cave from the left, bringing captives in oriental dress.
Sunderland: 102a & 103a.
[Ref: 21708] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Three warriors in mountains.]
[B. M. Fischer, c.1810.]
Pen lithograph, sheet 320 x 215mm (12½ x 8½"). Trimmed.
Early pen lithograph. The new medium allowed artists to draw directly onto a prepared stone, allowing them to make prints which arguably resembled drawings more than any earlier printmaking technique. Unlike many printmaking techniques, lithography required no special training as artists could work directly onto the plate and leave specialist printers to actually make the prints. For this reason many artists who were not trained printmakers (such as Géricault and Delacroix) often worked in lithography.
Ex: collection of the late H. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36950] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Banditti on the look out.
[I.H. Mortimer.]
Publish'd Dec.r 8, 1778 by I Mortimer.
Etching. Plate 300 x 197mm (11¾ x 7¾"). Crease.
Two banditti standing, leaning against a stone block which one figure rests his arm over beside his removed helmet, the other looking out to right with hand on hilt of sword; landscape with river beyond at lower right. From a series of "Fifteen etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds".
[Ref: 28030] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Banditti Returning.]
Mortimer Pinxit.t. I.B.Smith Sculpsit.
Published Feb.y. 14, 1780 by J.Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Very fine mezzotint. 300 x 250mm (11¾ x 9¾"). Small margins, tiny tear on upper left and tiny crease on upper right.
Three men stand at an entrance, another crouches in the background. One of the men is holding a woman captive at right.
Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Not recorded.
[Ref: 64496] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

[Storming a Banditti Stronghold]. From an original drawing of Mortimer in the possession of Mr. Richard Thorhold.
Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by Blyth.
London publish'd as the act directs. May 1st, 1782, by R. Blyth, No. 27, Great castle Street, Cavendish Square.
Etching. 345 x 280mm. (13½ x 11"), with large margins.
Four men fighting, two brandishing swords, one a club, the fourth pulling another's hair. After John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1799), painter of historical and romantic literary themes.
From the Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection.
[Ref: 28420] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

View of Banff.
Waterston. Edinburgh.
Published by William Smith, Bookseller, 22, Low Street, Banff.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 350 x 420mm (13¾ x 16½"), very large margins.
A rare locally-published view of Banff from above the town. On the right is John Smeaton's bridge over the River Deveron. Before the town is Duff House, built 1735-40 by William Adam, father of Robert Adam.
[Ref: 60735] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Representation of Storming and taking Bangalore, by the Marquis Cornwallis.
P. Lausau delin.t. J. Pass Sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800]
Etching and engraving with large margins. Plate: 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"). Central crease as issued.
Battle scene depicting the storming of Bangalore by Cornwallis after six weeks of seige during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Cornwallis sought to take Bangalore, a Mysorean garrison, in order to secure his position against Mysore's ruler Tipu Sultun. Whilst besieging Bangalore Cornwallis's army was harried by Tipu's own army which had followed Cornwallis to Bangalore. The image depicts Cornwallis charging the town of Bangalore while artillery fire bombards the city. An explosion in the top left corner throws bodies into the air. To the left an injured British soldier is carried by two others out of the field of battle.
[Ref: 33535] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

East View of Bangalore.
Drawn on the spot by R.H.Colebrooke. Engrav'd by J.W.Edy.
London: Pub.d April 1. 1793, for the Proprietor, by Mr. Thomson, No.22, Great Mary le bone.
Fine hand coloured aquatint J Whatman watermark; Platemark: 445 x 580mm (17½ x 22¾"). Small margins; small tears to upper edge of sheet.
An east view of Bangalore, with a small shrine and a dismounted horseman in the foreground to the left, and cattle grazing beyond. Engraved by John William Edy as plate 1 of Robert Hyde Colebrooke's (1762-1808) 'Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore', published by Thomson, London, 1793-94.
[Ref: 38728] £650.00

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The Bath, built by Lord Penryn, near Bangor, N. Wales.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. May, 1, 1815.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Large margins, uncut.
A coastal view,depicting a building at the end of a long pier in the middle ground, with four columns supporting a pediment in the porch. various figures are seen near a rowing boat in the foreground. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36136] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Bath, built by Lord Penryn, near Bangor, N.Wales.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London, May 1. 1815.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 222 x 298mm. 8¾ x 11¾". Slight stain in the lower margin, and into lower right-hand plate.
A view of the Bath near Bangor, north west Wales. From William Daniell's Second Volume of "Voyage around Great Britain".
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 18090] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Bath, built by Lord Penryn, near Bangor, N. Wales.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs. Longman & C.o. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland S.t. Fitzroy Square, London, May 1. 1816.
Coloured aquatint with large margins. Plate: 300 x 230mm (12" x 9").
View of a neoclassical style bath house situated at the end of a jetty, men in a rowing boat disembark. The Welsh coastline forms the backdrop to the scene. Plate 33 from Vol II of "Voyage Round Great Britain".
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 33891] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

The Bank, Looking Towards the Mansion House.
T.S.Boys Del et Lithog.
[London, T.S. Boys, 1843.]
Tinted lithograph with added colour. 435 x 320mm. (17¼ x 12½").
View along Threadneedle Steet with the Bank of England on the right and the Mansion House [the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London] in the distance. Published for Thomas Shotter Boys' 'London As It Is".
Abbey: 240.
[Ref: 31368] £360.00

Principal Front of the Bank of England [&] View of the West Quadrangle at the Bank of England with the Court Room. Designed by Sir Rob.t Taylor.
Drawn and Engav'd by T. Malton.
Publish'd as the Act directs Jan: 1.st 1790 by M.A. Taylor.
Pair of etchings with aquatint. Sheets 400 x 525mm (15¾ x 20¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed within plate. 'Principal' laid on archival paper. Faint mountburn.
Two views of the Bank of England as designed by English architect and sculptor, Sir Robert Taylor (1714 -88).
[Ref: 68919] £950.00 view all images for this item

The Bank Macaroni.
Pub accord to Act April 17th 1773 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 6¾ x 5".
A portly and rather self-important looking man in profile holding a quill pen, presumably a manager or employee of a bank. From 'Characters, Macaronies & Caricatures, by MDarly', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.6' upper left and '1' upper right.
BM Satires: 4707.
[Ref: 14351] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Bank of England.
Drawn, Printed & Published by G.J. Cox, Lithographer at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, 309, Regent St. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph on india. 165 x 215mm. 6½ x 8½".
A horse and carriage in the street and pedestrians on the pavement, outside the Bank of England.
[Ref: 23763] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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